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Ruth Simmons

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American academic and administrator

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Ruth Simmons
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#80
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#140
Historical Rank
#46
USA Rank
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According to Wikipedia, Ruth Simmons is an American professor and academic administrator. Simmons served as the eighth president of Prairie View A&M University, a HBCU, from 2017 until 2023. From 2001 to 2012, she served as the 18th president of Brown University, where she was the first African American president of an Ivy League institution. Before Brown University, she headed Smith College, one of the Seven Sisters and the largest women's college in the United States, beginning in 1995.

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